hutzpa

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If, in the minds of some, hutzpa is the key word to Leonard Bernstein, his father uses another Jewish expression to describe his hopes for his son.

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He has hutzpa all right, but always with more than a grain of justification.

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Its chief asset is Gertrude Berg, a supermom with a heart as big as her hutzpa.

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"He has hutzpa," says Rodzinski, and illustrates what he means with the story of how Bernstein, a mere 35, dared to conduct Beethoven's sacrosanct Ninth Symphony with the great Santa Cecilia chorus in Rome.

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All this may be hutzpa, but it works.

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